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I make my own stock and roasting bones and simmering for 8 hours is definitely more expensive.

Well yes, celery and I fell out a few years ago now. About the time it tried to kill ds1 I think, although tbh it had been on thin ice for a number of years due to stringyness and general lack of taste.

Nevertheless I don't generally shout at people about it, however much they attack my choice of stock.

No YANBU

Your incensedness has provided an excellent stock discussion.

I like shouting. If I was bothered about FUCKING CELERY I'd shout too.

Nairy has given the definitive bouillon pronunciation.

I was "shouting" because I'd accidentally hit the caps lock key on the computer, then couldn't be bothered to retype.

There was also meant to be a winking face next to it - no idea where that went. Sorry .

Barbarian Why are you shouting? My post was about the cost and packaging, not the ingredients!

Youseveredhead - after a gap and a special but successful trip to Tesco I noticed yesterday that Sainsbury's had the Knorr chicken stock bottles back in stock

Do I need to be stockpiling? Didn't buy as I'd only just started the bottle from Tesco.

If they have discontinued, I will revert to the Knorr stock cubes.

MIL swears by the Kosher chicken stock powder (can't remember the brand but you can get it in the "Foods of the World" aisle in Sainsbury's) - might give it a go.

Totally agrees op, I used to get the knorr bottles which were great cause you could vary how much you used now they don't do them

You are so, so unreasonable.

They have no gluten and no celery in them. Do you have any idea how rare thAT IS IN A STOCK CUBE? dO YOU?

(so enraged I have started to randomly capitalise).

If you only use your own stock you either use very little, or spend your whole life boiling bones.

Booo Eeee Yong (silent ng)

I am also waiting for someone else to write to waitrose re black plastic!

Boiling bones makes your house smell like a tropical abattoir & makes me wretch.

Booo WEEEEE On(silent N) Lady. BooooWEEEOHn.

Jenai Hadn't thought about liquid soap <adds Wright's Coal Tar to shopping list>
Love solid creamed coconut and you're right about transportation costs of 'Mineral Water'

Bouillion made my lips blister the one time I've tried it

I like the dry knorr stock cubes.

I have no desire to boil up old bones whatsoever.

horatia I do that faux self-sufficiency thing too - I get an inordinant amount of pleasure picking blackberries and apples and cadging free bones from the butcher.
Am about black plastic though...can't think of any food products that come in black plastic?

Ahhh sod off with yer stock making, you domestically, frugally, super mum esque individual. Am a stock cube user, AND PROUD!

BOUILLON
Not Boullion
Definitely not Bullion!

Feel better now

Kallo cubes here btw

I keep meaning to write to Waitrose about black plastic trays, but I'm waiting for someone else to do so instead We can recycle most things here, but not that.

agree about the packaging, though.
not only on stock cubes. compostable wrapping for most things would be nice (if packaging is neccessary at all).

I get bones from the butcher round the corner for nothing. Saves him chucking them. But then I like that kind of faux self-sufficiency.

OP is NBU about the fucking ridiculous overpackaging of certain foods in this country, although I do think we are getting better. Black plastic is my bugbear as it automatically can't be recycled. Can it really not be blue or green or white?

OP YABU about the general stock issue though, obviously.

I don't like the knorr jelly cubes, too salty for my taste.
the kallo cubes and marigold powder are nice. occasionally use oxo cubes.

I do approve of your incensedness. I feel the same about liquid handwash, tinned coconut milk (solid creamed coconut is far superior and less dear) and (not remotely controversially) mineral water.

It's all such a waste of resources, mainly in the transportation.

I should probably eschew Baxters soups in favour of Cup-a-Soup in that case (I won't).

<makes point of declining risotto at Nairy's house>

FunnyInLaJardin lol, it's just so easy to make your own stock that tastes shocking and uses up all your freezer space. Why don't we all do it

Erm, because it doesn't take shocking, saves money, uses up food that might otherwise go to waste, reduces packaging that might go to landfill, you know what you're eating and makes your food taste good? One chicken carcass = approx one litre of stock, so doesn't take up that much room in your freezer.

Jenai Am beginning to think I am somewhat minging I make beef and lamb stock from old bones too after the dog has finished with them